Saturday, May 10, 2014

Mother: a word that carries the essence of our
conception of nurturing, connectedness, love.From our own language, we believe it is the direct descendent of the
Proto-Germanic mōdor.

Linguists have commented on its affinity in nascent language
to the bilabial nasal sound of “mama,” a word that hews even closer to these
deep conceptions.

In contrast, things we may not conjure when we think of
Mother - the human maternal caregiver or the archetype of Mother Nature - are
the notions of violence, aggressiveness, selfishness or solitary survival.Rather, we recognize our love and
appreciation of Her and how essential She is to our deepest, sustaining
emotions and impulses, those that place us closest to our own compassion.

On Mother’s Day we can contemplate some as we reciprocate
original love and outwardly vindicate the deep human bonds that sustained us
from our first breath.